Boris defends partygate yet again

What does Boris Johnson want to come out of the Covid Inquiry? At the end of his second day of evidence today, the former prime minister claimed that it was social care reform and an investigation into how Covid originated. He told the room that in case he didn’t give evidence again (which he may well have to do as the inquiry is split into modules), he wanted to make an important point:

I do think that when you come to the issues of health and social care are absolutely critical, and the government that I led was embarked on a big programme to try to bring them together. I think the fact that we had those delayed discharge patients was very, very difficult in the NHS. I hope that this Inquiry will give a kick to the powers that be to make sure that we really address that.

He then added that while the inquiry probably couldn’t look into this, ‘some sort of prod to the world to get the answer to the real origins of Covid, I think is going to be very, very important’.